How to use local strengths to innovate and grow? Addressing complex challenges requires different tools, mindsets and approaches from those traditionally used.
- 25 March 2024
Innovation for place-based transformations. ACTIONbook, practices and tools is a comprehensive hands-on resource set to empower local, regional and national stakeholders across Europe to drive societal well-being and climate-resilient development.
More than 70 territories, including cities, regions, Member States and networks, are writing it and using it to draw together the map of innovative territories, sharing their experiences, learning from and with each other. On 9 April, we will present it and flesh it out in a Live streamed event with the President of the Committee of Regions, European Commissioners for Cohesion and Reforms and Research, Science and Innovation, and several Members of the European Parliament.
We will visit Kera, a future sustainable district in Finland where low-carbon concrete is produced. We will also stop by Medimurje, in Croatia, and learn how they transformed former barracks into a knowledge centre where children can learn robotics and science. And we will travel to Tuscany, Italy, to see how a traditional textile district can become circular thanks to digitalisation.
All of them are excellent examples of using local strengths to innovate and grow.
What about your territory? What is your potential to innovate? Tune in and discover the secrets of innovative places with truly transformative powers.